ONE / ANOTHER 

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Winter 2020. The nation is in standstill. Two twenty-year-old boys are isolating together, bound by restricted space and an unresolved history. As the outside world shuts down and a pandemic rages, the pair find themselves drawn into an illicit rave scene and back into the nostalgic patterns of their shared past. But at what cost?

This brand-new one-act play is written and directed by Aidan Monks, based on characters devised by Monks, Dylan Swain and Aubrey McCance, and performed by Swain and McCance. It is the sixth show by The St Andrews Art Theatre, an upcoming production company based in Scotland, which focuses on staging character-driven and urgent contemporary drama and brand-new writing. Previous work includes Monks' Playing Love at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, called a “delicious souffle of a show” by The Recs (4-stars) and cited by Edinburgh Guide as having “something for everyone”. The Student wrote last August, “If this is what Monks and his team are doing now, I can’t wait to see what they bring to the stage next” (4-stars). One/Another is what’s next.

This two-hander fuses dramatic monologue and physical theatre with searing dialogue to engage themes of queer desire, male loneliness, intimacy during a time where touch was taboo, and the power of music. Expect laughs, emotional rawness and richness, and the big room bangers in abundance. Come see.

PLEASE NOTE: We are developing this play throughout 2026 and these 4x showings at the Etcetera will come with an option to leave feedback for us via paper/pencil or Google Form (QR code).